Google is forcing everyone who has a private profile to go public by announcing that they will delete the private profiles by 31st of July 2011.

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According to the ICE, they have jurisdiction over any website which has a .com and .net TLD. The DNS index for these websites are routed through Verisign, a company based in Virginia USA. According to the ICE, that naturally gives them jurisdiction over all the .com and .net websites.

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So, Twitter continues with its acquisition streak. Twitter has just acquired social analytics startup BackType in a deal undisclosed. BackType will be joining Twitter’s platform team in San Francisco, where they will be focusing on creation of tools for Twitter’s publisher partners. This acquisition rather seems like just another talent acquisition. BackType is a San…

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Google plans to discontinue its Photo sharing platform Picasa and the blogging platform Blogger and will re-introduce them as Google Photos and Google Blogs. All this forms a part of the massive feature addition to Google’s new social network – Google+

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The most famous blogging platform WordPress has released an update of its platform in its new version 3.2 which is also called “Gershwin”.

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After a period of more than 18 months, Worldspace radio has once again commenced it’s radio services in India. This has been made possible as the result of a strategic partnership between Saregama Ltd. and Timbre Media.

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Facebook has blocked access to a Google Chrome application that helps users import their Facebook contacts into Google’s new social network – Google Plus.

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Google has disabled it’s Real Time search feature due to a contract expiry with Twitter. Google now plans to re-launch the service with updates from it’s new social network – Google Plus.

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In emails sent out to the private beta testers of Dolphin Browser 6, they have included the emails address of everyone who have signed up for the beta. According to those who have received the email, the number of email addresses included in the email numbers in the thousands.

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